Renee Dew, Cmp Email & Phone Number

Experienced certified meeting professional who brings a strong blend of strategy, event design, site management and logistics, production, technology, staffing, stakeholder relations, and budget management to my work. I am passionate about executing a flawless delivery of first-rate meetings and events.I have experience planning and executing face-to-face, virtual, and hybrid events. For SACSCOC's large events, I oversee the selection, planning, and logistics for audio-visual production and services, manage meeting space and set-ups in coordination with the venues, and work with various vendors on logistical arrangements. I am also responsible for creating run-of-shows, scheduling 200+ workshops and concurrent sessions including vendor sessions and showcase, scheduling 100+ staff volunteers, training our volunteers, coordinating strategic sponsorships, session evaluations, affiliate meetings, and the setup of a resource room. I also provide support to my team in areas of event design, venue contract agreements, securing meeting space, speaker selection and management, event platform selection and implementation, vendor relations, registration, marketing materials, graphics, housing, entertainment, risk management, event assessment, invoice reconciliations, and post-event recaps. In addition to the large annual events, I handle all planning and execution of various small meetings and events. My responsibilities for these meetings include, but are not limited to, hotel contracts, meeting space, A/V production and services, food and beverage, meeting materials, guest rooms, travel, promotional items, and budget management.I can effectively manage budgets, assess risks and opportunities, and see the big picture. I keep focused on the bottom-line, making sure costs are in check by lining out key needs and costs, developing scope of work, and monitoring expenses for each project. I am tech-savvy. I have taken the lead on software implementation, played key role in selection of virtual event platform, and am proficient in MS Office, Zoom, Cvent, Social Tables, Pathable, SurveyMonkey, and iRubric.I am a meeting planner who proactively takes ownership of whatever task I am given ensuring quality outcomes. I can sort through clutter and obstacles to find the best solution. I make meaningful connections with stakeholders to work toward a common goal. I am energized by implementing best practices and new industry trends. I am flexible to change and can easily manage multiple tasks.

Listed skills include Leadership, Conflict Management, Sponsorship Relations, Session Evaluation, and 35 others.